ix, 354 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-338) and index

Mormon women and the problem of historical agency / Catherine Brekus -- Remember me : inscriptions of self in nineteenth-century Mormonism / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Reexploring Mormon women and agency in the context of polygamy / Rachel Cope -- Turning the key : understanding Mormon women's material culture / Jennifer Reeder -- "We baked a lot of bread" : reconceptualizing Mormon women and ritual objects / Kristine Wright -- Women and Mormon authority / Jonathan Stapley -- Mormon women's agency and changing conceptions of the Mother in Heaven / Susanna Morrill -- Jane James's agency / Quincy D. Newell -- "A rough stone from nature's quarry" : the problem of agency in the nineteenth-century Pacific / Amanda Hendrix-Komoto -- "A wider sphere of action" : women's agency in 1870s Utah / Kate Holbrook and Rebekah Ryan Clark -- "The best social practice" : Mormon women and the professionalization of reform / Matthew Bowman -- LDS women's attitudes toward the Church : satisfied with the status quo or restless for reform? / David E. Campbell -- Mormon women in Europe : a look at gender norms / Carine Decoo-Vanwelkenhuysen -- Culture and agency in Mormon women's lives / Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye -- Mormon women's sexual agency in partiarchal culture : women who suffer and women who thrive / Jennifer Finlayson-Fife -- Agency in the lives of contemporary LDS women / Claudia Bushman -- My Book of Mormon story / P. Jane Hafen -- Filling the page : women's choices in the context of gospel boundaries / Neylan McBaine -- Narrating agency / Aimee Evans Hickman -- Soul sisters : intersecting paths in the journey of Mormon and Roman Catholic feminists / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- A Mormon woman's journey in Sierra Leone / Mariama Kallon with Riley M. Lorimer

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